If it is said that at a distance of about three or four miles, even if the waves are not very large, it is not one in a hundred to fire at a moving target with the guns on the ship, but when the distance is approached to a distance of less than one mile, even if some small ships fire medium and heavy shells with a more obvious recoil effect, the hit rate is close to about 10%, and the fierce direct fire of more than 2,000 medium-sized naval guns on more than 200 small and medium-sized ships also makes the side of the armored ship in the middle of the ship constantly sound a huge crashing sound. The human propeller paddlers who were working hard to pedal with all their might in the cabin felt a burst of vibration, and the whole ship seemed to be in a continuous storm when sailing. The water jets that kept splashing and waves on the side of the boat didn't have much of an impact.

At the beginning, there were still many people who felt nervous, even if they had participated in several similar naval battles before, but after determining that the probability of the opponent's shells threatening their own hull was extremely low, the officers and soldiers in the cabin were no longer as nervous as before.

From the effective threat distance of about one mile to the maximum projectile distance of about 200 paces of 300 catties of blasting shells did not seem to be very far, and soon the ships in the process of driving approached the position of about half a mile to 200 paces away from the enemy's small boat fleet, and the naval guns that fired the blasting shells also began to fire fiercely at this time. In order to save ammunition to the maximum, this attack was not carried out in a salvo of inevitable hits, but the attack was first launched with four guns against one target, and the two hundred and forty mortars at the front were first aimed at sixty different small boat targets.

At a distance of about 200 paces to about half a mile, even against small and medium-sized sea vessels, which are not very large, the firing efficiency of effectively and completely destroying the enemy ships is about one-seventh or eighth, and the hit rate of the four-gun salvo is less than half; in a very short period of time, 26 enemy ships were covered in the first firing in the first round of fire, and more than a dozen enemy ships seemed to have lost their effective reaction capability in a short period of time.

Such a huge explosion did not make all the enemy ships decide to give up resistance in the first place, and there were still many ships desperately resisting under the orders of the captain, and as the distance closed, the shells that hit the expeditionary fleet led by Wang Yuan still seemed to be denser than before. The masts of several ships were also destroyed by shells fired by enemy ships when they were not too far away, and it was only because of the human propellers that they were barely able to move forward at this time.

As they approached a closer distance of about 150 to 100 paces of the enemy's small boats, a fierce second salvo unfolded. This time, not only the mortar in the bow of the ship was used maliciously, but also in the middle and stern of the ship. Sixty ships had already been loaded with four hundred and eighty mortars that had already been loaded with brains, and at the same time launched fierce fire on one hundred and twenty targets.

The firing efficiency brought by the four salvos at this distance finally exceeded half, and the seventy-one small and medium-sized peripheral warships of the enemy army began to sink rapidly in the continuous sound of huge explosions, and several of them seemed to have suffered huge explosions, and the artillery or debris scattered everywhere made the nearby enemy ships feel panic. This time, the previous heavy shelling and firing seemed to have stopped, and even if the cabin was blocked by many people, there were no ordinary sailors willing to wait for the verdict of fate in such a place.

Although they knew that it was not safe to jump into the water in such a situation, many crew members and even sailors jumped into the seemingly cold waters when they sensed that the escape of the fleet was hopeless.

It was only by this time that the admiral in charge of the Dutch fleet understood how terrible this powerful eastern enemy was, and the captains of the Spaniards who remained in the area began to understand why the mighty fleet on the west coast had disappeared so inexplicably.

About a minute later, while the enemy ships were shocked, the fleet led by Wang Yuan had already approached from a wide range to a distance of about 100 to 150 paces from the enemy's main ship group on the harbor. At this time, the 720 naval guns that had been reloaded launched a scattered attack under the guidance and command of the reconnaissance hot air balloon, not seeking to ensure that the target of the attack would sink in a single round of fire, but to kill and injure the approaching opponent to the greatest extent.

If at the moment before, many coalition officers on the capital ships were still planning to effectively organize the attention of the breakout and escape while launching fire resistance, then at this time it seems that the opportunity to escape has been completely lost. More and more people began to jump into the water and flee to the shore in this not too far from the coast.

At this time, Wang Yuan did not focus on chasing down the enemy officers and soldiers who had fled to the sea or even to the shore, and it was not even at this time that the enemy's land artillery fortifications, which had already launched fire one after another and had begun to pose some threats to the fleet, were still many of the enemy's main ships that did not choose to abandon their ships and planned to flee.

In this way, the naval duel near the port quickly turned into a battle of pursuit and annihilation at sea. If the coalition fleet had reacted the most heavily and correctly from the beginning, it would have been possible to destroy all sea targets because of the lack of ships and the lack of explosive shells, and perhaps there would still be many small or even large ships that would have escaped eventually.

However, the relatively conservative choice of the coalition fleet to meet the battle, and even the panic after the attack, gradually made the situation gradually become clear that this seemed to be the last large-scale land-sea duel.

When the last group of enemy ships gathered within a radius of dozens of miles and were pursued and sunk, the main ships erupted in long-lasting cheers, although there are still a large number of enemies in the land port that have not yet been resolved, not to mention whether the remnants of the enemy on the farther northern coast and even the west coast of Taixi have been truly wiped out, but this large-scale naval victory undoubtedly indicates that the war against the most critical and dangerous opponents in the entire civilized world has begun to enter the stage of ending and even locking the victory.

Wang Yuan did not immediately organize an attack at this time, but let the ships rest for more than an hour before gradually assembling.

(End of chapter)